HP Colour Laserjet 5550 printer is a versatile colour laser printer. It falls under the workgroup printers. It is exclusively made for small offices and workplaces. This heavy duty printer comes with features that assist working in a small workplace and can be used often without any layover. It is shipped with a set of HP Colour Laserjet 5550 toner cartridges. The HP Colour Laserjet 5550 printer weighs 51.8 kgs. It has a width of 576.58 mm, a depth of 703.58 mm and a height of 640.08 mm.
The HP Colour Laserjet 5550 printer gives you a print resolution of 600 dpi. The maximum printing speed for black and white or colour prints is 28 ppm. While it handles media such as plain paper, heavy-weight paper, glossy paper, transparencies, labels and cards, envelopes, recycled paper and any kind of glossy paper, It has a capacity of 600 sheets. It can give a monthly printout of 120000 pages.
It is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP etc as well as Mac OS. The printer comes with HP Colour Laserjet 5550 drivers and other utility software. You can easily connect the printer to your systems via USB or parallel connections. HP Colour Laserjet 5550 toner cartridges that come in a set of four colours namely cyan, yellow, magenta and black. The printer comes with a 128 MB installed RAM and runs on DDR SDRAM technology. It has two media slots for external RAM addition.
Advantages- Duplex printing
- Heavy duty laser printer
- Great print quality
- Wide range of print media usage
- Fast printing
- Bluetooth absent
- Bulky
Replacements for HP Colour Laserjet 5550 toner cartridges are:
- C9730A (HP 645A Black) Black Compatible Toner Cartridge
- C9731A (HP 645A Cyan) Black Compatible Toner Cartridge
- C9732A (HP 645A Yellow) Black Compatible Toner Cartridge
- C9733A (HP 645A Magenta) Black Compatible Toner Cartridge
The HP Colour Laserjet 5550 printer is an ideal laser printer for small offices. The print quality and quantity that the printer offers is very good. This heavy duty laser printer gives compatibility with most of the systems easily. However, it is bulky and one needs to connect the system to the printer using a USB cable for printing. On a whole, this printer will serve a small unit best and a couple of these printers can be installed for a medium sized office as well.
What is to be done when HP Colour laserjet 5550 printer is printing poor quality prints?
If one experiences poor print quality with the printer, one should always check that the issue is not always with a faulty HP Colour Laserjet 5550 Toner cartridge. There is an easy utility one can utilize to identify the faulty toner which is the PQ TROUBLESHOOTING test page. There will be a test print from each of the toners inside and if in case, one of the toners is faulty, one should be able to see this.
Below are the steps to be followed:
- Press Select button or MENU to enter the MENUS
- Press the arrow down to highlight DIAGNOSTICS.
- Click to Select button to select DIAGNOSTICS.
- Press the Down arrow to highlight the PQ TROUBLESHOOTING.
- Lastly press the Select button to print your pages.
- The printer returns back to the READY state once, after printing the print quality troubleshooting pages.
How can carriage jam be fixed in HP Colour laserjet 5550?
Turn the printer off and let it cool for about a minute before turning it back on. Now print a test page to see if the printer is running properly. Even after facing an issue, check for the printer’s paper feeder for a paper jam. Inspect the wheels and rollers inside the machine for any small pieces of torn paper and remove them. Also check for any obstructions around or under the carriage that could prevent it from moving. If found, carefully remove and reinstall the HP Colour Laserjet 5550 Toner cartridge. Turn the printer off and unplug it from the socket for about a minute, then turn it back on.
How to avoid Toner Smearing of the Paper?
Clean the printer, then try a test print. If the problem persists, put a new HP Colour Laserjet 5550 Toner cartridge and test run a new page. If this fixes the problem, it is likely to say that the old cartridge is not working properly.